Wednesday, 30 May 2012

512. In the United States do not mess with the oral health

 Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion
In the United States is working hard on preventing and combating diseases related to oral health, benefiting the whole population.
In Portugal buys the silence of those who can and should publicly denounce the almost complete neglect in the provision of oral health care to the population by the Ministry of Health

511. British dentists evaluated the Internet

In the United Kingdom, patients can now assess dentists' offices through an online service launched by the British Ministry of Health.
The British government has launched an online service that allows citizens to evaluate and rank the services of a dentist, as already happens in other areas of health. With the creation of this service, patients can access information in one place, such as schedules, locations and additional services offered by 22 000 dentists of National Health Service.
With a total of 1.2 million dental visits per month, the Government intends to make life easier for patients by giving them information about dental services, but also communicate directly with professionals in the National Health Service. This experiment aims to improve the performance of dental clinics, through the exchange of information.
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It is essential to give patients the opportunity to also assess the oral health care they receive. At the same time would also be an optimal strategy to combat abusive practices that constantly can still be observed in numerous practices or clinics (service charge without informing the price before the treatments, the passage of several bills for the same query to optimize the maximum possible profit and seriously harm the Social Security and / or fictitious ADSE with contributions, etc.).
This is one of the flagship measures that the Order of Dentists should have implemented long ago. The ability to evaluate the services provided at all levels will be essential to maintain high quality standards, ensuring the health of patients and allowing each person to freely choose their doctor dentist. Is it so hard to put this strategy into practice in our country?
 
 

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

510. Portuguese Association of Hospital Medicine

 
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The contribution of dentistry for the health of the population is not limited in their exercise as a liberal profession.
The dentist will have to act in the future as an important agent for promoting comprehensive health, engaging actively in prevention, screening and treatment of all diseases that have to do with the welfare of patients, should be interested in the integration of its activities in local health facilities (health centers, hospitals, public or private), participating in and promoting meetings with other health professionals, particularly with the medical specialties that are closer (Dental, ENT, Maxillofacial Surgery face), but also family medicine or public health.
Only in this way may establish a closer collaboration with the entire medical community, with the ultimate objective treatment and welfare of patients.
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At a time is so much talk of economic crisis and the increasing difficulties of the Portuguese in access to health care, it is worth remembering also that the Portuguese state has spent the past twenty years, hundreds of millions of euros to train dentists . The question is: how much you paid each Portuguese for the formation of many thousands of dentists and how many of them are now working on the National Health Service? May not know other country in the world where highly specialized human resources in the state invests tens of thousands of euros for their training, then do not have any use in the National Health Service. It's good to know who are really responsible for the disaster of oral health in Portugal, after many hundreds of millions of euros spent our taxesIt's time for some politicians begin to be held criminally liable for these policies.   

Thursday, 10 May 2012

509. ANGOLA: Children are agents against dental caries

Huambo - The project aims to create smile this year, agents nozzle infant health in schools, so that through lectures and guided demonstrations to reinforce the message against tooth decay. It is also perspective for this year to create children's theater groups for children to be activists against tooth decay and other mouth diseases, which affect mostly the small ones.
The project manager, Sara Soeli Leandro, revealed today in ANGOP, that the creation of child-raising agents should be reflected in the expansion of health activities nozzle, involving a larger number of city schools. Sara Soeli Leandro said that to consolidate the theoretical knowledge that children will learn in the lectures will be distributed 100,000 health kits nozzle, consisting of brushes, and pepsodente explanatory booklet on the care to be taken during brushing.
He explained that in each lecture the students have the opportunity to make an accompanied brushing, your teeth, so they learn the technique of brushing your teeth healthy. Noted that the supervised brushing is done through a portable kit (brushodrome) acquired in 2010, consisting of sink, mirror and water.
According to the source, this work of public health is a provincial government initiative through the local department of health in partnership with the education sector and in spite of economic constraints, the project covered smile, in 2010, over 50,000 children across province. Were also mounted in 2010 Stomatological sections in the districts of Londuimbali (Auto-Hama), Ukuma, Bailundo, Huambo and Katchiungo.
The challenge is to continue, during this year, so that in the 11 municipalities that make up the province people have this service running. He regretted, however, the lack of dental technicians in the area so that services work regularly. We have proposed a course in dentistry in the province, we expect the government to approve the document to reduce the deficit of tables continued.
Another bet of the project is to continue to pay attention to pregnant women through prenatal conduct, to direct and move differently pregnant women to avoid many complications that may have and also dispel the myth that pregnancy can not extract the tooth. Implemented by the Management Company Private Health AMOSMID, the project has existed for more than five years and has been applauded by many families, especially rural communities, because many children learned to brush their teeth in school lectures, after five years of age.
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How many projects will need to import from Third World countries so that in Portugal there is also addressed preventive oral health care to all children and young people of all primary schools and secondary schools? Is it only important to fill the little heads of boys with Sex Education?
We're tired of seeing millions and millions of pamphlets produced by the Directorate-General for Health and campaigns exorbitant money poorly spent on advertising spots on television, in which no contribution to improving the oral health of the Portuguese. All that money would have been much better spent if it had been spent on medical care, many hundreds of thousands of children could now have a smile that perhaps never again will the rest of their lives. Can not believe that the Director - General for Health and Minister of Health are so people so cold and callous to the suffering of children and youth in need of oral health, these children who will be marked physically and psychologically for the rest of their lives. There is nobody who does not realize that a prevention was extremely well made cheaper by the Health Ministry to do the treatments only when any oral diseases.
Current policies for oral health in Portugal need a revolution at all levels.

Sunday, 6 May 2012

508. dental implant

The dental implant is a dental service run to compensate for the absence of one or more teeth damaged that they have the possibility of recovery. Placement of prosthetic bridges, or has the disadvantage of these simple remain resting on the adjacent teeth and provide room for movement of false teeth, which is not true in the setting by using the implant. The price for the procedure is not very high if taken into account the superior quality and longevity of dental implant duration.
The dental implant procedure is performed by placing the bone of the jaw or maxillary beneath the gingiva, of a titanium screw, which acts as support for fixing a dental prosthesis. The micro surgery to fix the titanium screw is done in the dentist's office with local anesthesia and takes about one hour to perform. Before completion of the implant when the implant is placed with the tooth (s), it is necessary to await a recovery period of three to six months for correct integration of the screw on mandibular or maxillary bone structure.
The performance of dental implant is restricted to people with bone formation already full, which usually occurs near the majority, and which have serious health problems and therefore require a thorough assessment of the candidate prior to the prosthesis.

507. Hospital Valongo performs oral cancer screenings in social housing

A team from the Hospital Valongo started Wednesday an oral cancer screening as part of an initiative that will cover all social housing in the county and extending until the end of 2011, advances the agency Lusa.
Renato Matos, member Executive Board of that hospital, Lusa said that the aim is to raise awareness and publicize the main causes of this disease, the number of cases has increased in Portugal.
Its appearance is very associated with smoking and alcohol (about 75% of cases), as well as consumption of drugs. That is, the overwhelming majority of cases depends on risky habits, sustained Renato Matos.
The administrator of the hospital Valongo explained that pursuing a policy of closeness to the population, the health unit is intended to alert the population to this disease.
Awareness initiatives are crucial - having proper information, people may experience noticeable symptoms, recovery time, so awareness initiatives like this are crucial, he said. According to the doctor, all situations are suspect will undergo biopsy and patients receive appropriate treatment at the Hospital for Valongo.
Clinicians participating in the surveys are service dentistry and dental hospital and Cooperative Higher Polytechnic and University (CESPU).
The first screening takes place Wednesday and Thursday in the Social Enterprise Outrela in the city of Valongo.
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Knowing that the number of boarding schools in stomatology in Portugal this year is zero and someone tries to strangle his career these professionals, it was good they were to land and take account of the blunders that practice as senior executives of public administration.
Well, there are still doctors who flock against dentists who never accountable for their decisions, thanks to friends and vested interests in senior policy-making in the country. It would be great that these leaders would never be allowed to have access to medical oncology in the future.